Marc Benioff is the founder and CEO of Salesforce. He is also very much a liberal and has been extremely critical of President Trump in the past.
Now he is calling for Trump to send the National Guard to San Francisco.
It’s just proof that some people are eventually able to overcome their Trump Derangement Syndrome. Unfortunately for Benioff, his friends on the left are not so forgiving. In fact, they’re outraged and feel like he has betrayed them.
Politico reports:
‘Slap in the face’: Marc Benioff’s Trump turn stuns San Francisco
Tech billionaire Marc Benioff’s new show of support for Donald Trump and call for National Guard troops to patrol San Francisco’s streets has shaken local Democrats who long regarded the Salesforce CEO as a close ally.
Benioff, speaking to The New York Times in an interview published Friday, said he was “all for” deploying Guard troops with the goal of fighting crime in the city. In the same interview, Benioff said Trump is “doing a great job” as president.
“I fully support the president,” Benioff told the Times.
Benioff’s support for Trump and Guard deployment cuts against his years of lavish giving and full-throated support for Democratic causes, even as other tech titans shifted toward Trump.
“This is a slap in the face to San Francisco,” Matt Dorsey, who represents parts of downtown on the city’s Board of Supervisors, said in an X post.
People on the left were so outraged about this that Benioff had to cancel an event with the mayor.
KQED News reports:
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, SF Mayor Scrap Event After National Guard Comment
Days after his comments advocating for President Donald Trump to send the National Guard into San Francisco ballooned into a controversy, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff was slated to appear at a press event on Monday afternoon with Mayor Daniel Lurie. Then it was cancelled.
The abrupt change came after Benioff, a fourth-generation San Franciscan once viewed as relatively liberal, came under fire over the weekend for praising Trump in an interview with The New York Times and lambasting the city’s approach to combating crime, saying the city should “refund” the police force—even though the police budget has grown and violent crime rates are down.
When the left turns on someone like this, they’re doing it for a very specific reason. It’s meant to send a warning to others. Leave the liberal reservation, and this will happen to you too.